Containerisation Contracts in the West Midlands

Containerization
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 104 127
Rank change year-on-year +31 +23 -18
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 24 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.78% 0.36% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 0.43% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 7
10th Percentile £343 £275 -
25th Percentile £444 £288 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £459 £650
90th Percentile £800 £469 £715
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Containerisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the West Midlands

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the West Midlands

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the West Midlands

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +22 9 £450 +5.88% 21
Herefordshire - 5 £700 - 5
Worcestershire - 4 £700 - 5
Solihull - 3 £500 - 1
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 22
Warwickshire - 1 - - 6
Shropshire - 1 - - 8
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Apache
2 3 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
4 5 (20.83%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (12.50%) AWS KMS
6 3 (12.50%) PaaS
6 3 (12.50%) Route 53
6 3 (12.50%) SaaS
7 2 (8.33%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (8.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
7 2 (8.33%) Boomi
7 2 (8.33%) GitHub
7 2 (8.33%) OCI
7 2 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.17%) Flink
4 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (12.50%) DbUnit
2 3 (12.50%) jMock
2 3 (12.50%) JUnit
2 3 (12.50%) Maven
2 3 (12.50%) Mockito
2 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Legal
5 2 (8.33%) Finance
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Lead
2 3 (12.50%) Python Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
2 3 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Application Development Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Applications Development Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Applications Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Development Manager
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) .NET
2 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (16.67%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (12.50%) Bootstrap
3 3 (12.50%) Django
3 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 3 (12.50%) JPA
3 3 (12.50%) PowerMock
3 3 (12.50%) PySpark
3 3 (12.50%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) SOAP
3 3 (12.50%) Spring
3 3 (12.50%) Spring Batch
3 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (12.50%) Spring Integration
3 3 (12.50%) Web Services
4 2 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Rocky
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (33.33%) DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
5 5 (20.83%) Microservices
5 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.83%) Task Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Scrum
6 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Software Delivery
7 3 (12.50%) ETL
7 3 (12.50%) Kanban
7 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 3 (12.50%) TDD
7 3 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 6 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 4 (16.67%) Bash
6 3 (12.50%) C#
7 2 (8.33%) R
8 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) NCSC
2 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 18 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) Postfix
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (79.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (37.50%) Terraform
3 6 (25.00%) Ansible
4 4 (16.67%) Grafana
4 4 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 3 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) BT
3 1 (4.17%) Dell
3 1 (4.17%) Siemens